CVE-2019-1789

Publication date 3 April 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

ClamAV versions prior to 0.101.2 are susceptible to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An out-of-bounds heap read condition may occur when scanning PE files. An example is Windows EXE and DLL files that have been packed using Aspack as a result of inadequate bound-checking.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
clamav 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 0.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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